Time to spare, go by air - according to ASA ruling

[BHX man]

actually the train does 186 mph, in foriegn money thats 300 kph

[llondel]

I guess the ASA people live in London. For me, it's about 40 minutes to Stansted and probably a couple of hours to Waterloo, even if I took the train there. OK, so I'll spend up to 90 minutes in a security queue at Stansted, but the travel time to the airport is definitely less.

[WHBM]

The train is quicker from Eurostar station to Eurostar station, which the ASA choose to emphasise.

Most people do not live anywhere near a Eurostar station, which the ASA choose to ignore.

Some very one-sided analysis.

Originally Posted by effortless

I have left Henfield Sussex at 10.00, collected visas from Brussels and been back in the office by 15.00. This included driving to Ashford

You'll be stuffed then come October 2007, when Eurostar effectively abandon their station at Ashford and you have to drive all the way back to Gravesend to the new railway.

[840]

I have not travelled on Eurostar however from earlier posts it seems that security regulations are considerably less onerous on the train/station operator. Why is that, (well I know why it is, because our regulators react to past attacks/threats as oppose to trying to prevent new methods/targets).

Because, while you could carry out an attack on the train, there's a limited number of things you could do with it. Hijacking is not an option because it can only travel on the rail lines and those are controlled by someone not on the train. Also, the only target on the route is the Channel Tunnel itself and if you were going to attack that, you'd bring a big bomb on a car transporter rather than something that could be carried onto the Eurostar.